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November 30 - December 02, 2011 nacomm2011@iitm.ac.in

Department of Engineering Design, IIT Madras under the aegis of Association for IMPORTANT DATES
Machines and Mechanisms (AMM), and International Federation for the Promotion of
Mechanism and Machine Science (IFToMM) is organising NaCoMM 2011 at IIT Madras. Abstract submission : May 01, 2011
The conference aims at bringing together researchers, industry experts and students Abstract acceptance : May 15, 2011
interested in various aspects of design and analysis of machines and mechanisms. The Full paper submission : July 31, 2011
conference also includes a one-day workshop focusing on the kinematics of mechanisms Acceptance notification : September 30, 2011
and robot manipulators, and a students' mechanism design contest. Camera ready paper : October 15, 2011
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Registration : October 15, 2011
TOPICS
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Analysis and Synthesis of Mechanisms Dynamics and Control of Multi-body Systems At least one author of each accepted paper
Theoretical and Computational Kinematics Dynamics and Vibration Analysis in Machines
Robotics Micro-, Nano-Machines and Mechanisms
Compliant Mechanisms Design and Analysis of Biomedical Devices
PATRON
Mechatronic Systems History of Machines and Mechanisms M. S. Ananth, Director, IIT Madras, India
Mechanisms and Machines for Rural, Agricultural and Industrial Applications
CONFERENCE CHAIR / CONTACT CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS
PUBLICATIONS Sandipan Bandyopadhyay G. Saravana Kumar
Based on three peer reviews, some papers would be accepted for presentation and some
Department of Engineering Design IIT Madras, India
more for poster presentations. All accepted papers would be included in a CD and also
IIT Madras, Chennai – 600 036, India
uploaded to the AMM website. Selected papers would be published in the IFToMM's
Phone : +91-44-2257 4733 M. Sreekumar
scientific journal, Mechanism and Machine Theory. The best two papers (one in the
Fax : +91-44-2257 4732 IIITD&M Kancheepuram, India
general, other in the students' category) would receive the AMM Best Paper awards. .
SUBMISSION ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Authors are invited to submit a two-page extended abstract following the “Abstract C. Amarnath, IIT Bombay, India Amalendu Mukherjee, IIT Kharagpur, India
Submission” link at the conference website between February 15 and May 01, 2011. The G. K. Ananthasuresh, IISc Bangalore, India S. Narayanan, IIT Madras, India
official language of the workshop is English. Marco Ceccarelli, University of Cassino, Italy Doina Pisla, Tech. Univ. of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
P. Chandramouli, IIT Madras, India Jagannath Raju, Systemantics India Pvt. Ltd, India
REGISTRATION* I-Ming Chen, NTU, Singapore K. Ramesh, CAIR, India
Country S. G. Dhande, IIT Kanpur, India J. S. Rao, Altair Engineering India Pvt. Ltd, India
Delegates Ashitava Ghosal, IISc Bangalore, India B. V. A. Rao, VIT, India
India (`) Other (US $) Amitabha Ghosh, BESU, India Bernard Roth, Stanford University, USA
Full time research scholars/students 1500 150 R. Gnanamoorthy, IIITD&M, India Subir Kumar Saha, IIT Delhi, India
Academia and research organisations 4500 250 Manfred Husty, Univ. of Innsbruck, Austria Sankar N. Shome, CMERI, India
Others 6500 400 Arun Juara, Eaton Corporation, India P. Sivakumar, CVRDE, India
Concession to AMM Life or Corporate members/ Andrés Kecskeméthy, University of Duisburg- B. Sridhar, Function Dynamics Infosolutions India
Delegates from IFToMM member organisations Essen, Germany Pvt. Ltd, India
(over respective fees in all categories) 500 50 Ashok Mallik, BESU, India C. D. Sridhara, ISRO, India
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Jean-Pierre Merlet, INRIA, France Nilesh J. Vasa, IIT Madras, India
Registration fee includes conference souvenir containing abstracts of all the selected papers, T. S. Mruthyunjaya, NTTF, India S. Venugopal, IGCAR, India
proceedings in CD, snacks and lunches at workshop and conference, and the conference dinner.

We invite sponsorships for the conference. Please contact the Conference Chair for details.